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LPAA Presentation
The Lima-Paris Action Agenda capitalises on the invitation to the incoming
Presidencies of the COP to enhance the implementation of climate action.
The purpose of this paper, authored by the COP20/CMP10 Peruvian
Presidency, the incoming COP 21/CMP 11 French Presidency, the UNFCCC
Secretariat and the Executive Office of the Secretary-General of the United
Nations, is to complement the Lima-Paris Action Agenda" declaration of
December 13th, 2014. It contextualizes and provides practical guidelines
and orientations to both state and the non-state actors to implement the
declaration and support the UNFCCC process. More details will be
progressively included in this document.
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regions and other sub national entities, international organizations, civil society, indigenous
peoples, women, youth, academic institutions, as well as businesses) acting as individual
entities or in partnerships. Itaims to accelerate actions both pre 2020 and afterwards.
To that end, the Action Agenda needs to trigger a growing engagement of non-state actors as
well as build concrete, ambitious and lasting cooperative initiatives, supported by time bound
roadmaps for implementation.
Milestones
During COP21, the four partners will respond to the Lima Call for Climate Action by convening
a series of Action Days as well as a High Level Meeting on Climate Action, i.e. the
Action Day which will take place on December 5th.
The Act'on Day will be supported by a sequence of LPAA Thematic Focus (or LPAA focus:
cities ard subnationals, energy access & efficiency, renewable energy, transport, innovation,
agriculture, forests, private finance, resilience, buildings, business, short-lived climate
pollutarts). They will consist of high level official events that will highlight all the cooperative
and ind'vidual commitments per sector or themes. The Thematic Action Days will enable the
stakeho ders to present issues and existing solution pathways for each of the main action areas
of the Agenda.
As a whole, these days will showcase the magnitude of mobilization and the credibility of
corresponding commitments. In this way, it will contribute positively to the implementation of
the new climate agreement beyond 2015.
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- Joining or partnering with initiatives, either to get some support for accelerated domestic
action or to bring national expertise and assistance.
- Encourage domestic non-state actors to take individual commitments or join existing
initiatives.
- Launching new initiatives.
Businesses
The contribution of the private sector is essential to the success of the Paris climate
negotiations (COP21) this December. Businesses have the responsibility to adapt their business
models to help meet the challenge of keeping global temperature rises to no more than 1.52C.
The LPAA partners are working to engage more and more businesses in the climate
action movement in the run up to Paris in order to forge a pathway towards a low
carbon and resilient world
This easiest way to support this work is by committing to mitigation or adaptation
actions or signing up to a transformational initiative that will be featured at the
negotiations.
This year, business has the potential to inspire governments to greater ambition.
There are three principal ways in which business can engage with the Action Agenda:
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1 - Cooperative Action
This includes joining partnerships or cooperative initiatives. Several major organizations
and coalitions are working to structure and promote large multi-stakeholder initiatives
aimed at augmenting and encouraging climate action.
Several of them are directly targeted to businesses. The LPAA partners strongly encourage
these initiatives, which will be showcased at the COP. Cooperative action can be:
- Action-oriented
- Industry-orientated
- Technology-oriented
2 - Individual Action
This involves setting individual targets. Large-scale transformation will only happen if
businesses systematically integrate climate action into strategy-building and investment
decision-making processes. In order to create an upward spiral of ambition, these
objectives must be publicly announced and attached to quantified and time-bound
reporting process. Key areas are:
- Mitigation: reduce emissions, improve efficiency, shift to renewable energies, etc.
- Resilience: adaptation measures, risk assessment, etc.
- Finance: ESG and climate risks integration, carbon accounting, etc.
3 - Public Policy Action
To encourage governments to increase their commitments and make ambitious decisions in
Paris, it is essential that businesses actively advocate to the governments of the countries
in which they are operating to develop public policies which encourage emissions
reductions, notably policies related to carbon pricing.
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financing.
New twinning initiatives between city governments, state and provincial governments could
also contribute to accelerated mitigation and resilience actions. States and sub-national actors
could also commit to working together in a vertically integrated approach.
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